Gun myths that simply refuse to die?

[Eric in Oregon]

I can't seem to find the video from a couple decades ago, but Chuck Schumer stating that a semi-auto can be converted easily to full-auto with a, quote, "paper-clip".

Not technically a paper clip and far past when Chucky would have said it, but I give you Coat hanger DIAS

 

[pharmseller]

when they stare down at that huge hole in the end of the barrel.

If you're close enough to the bad guy that he can tell the difference between 9mm (.345 inches) and a .45, you're too close.

One tenth of one inch ain't much.




P

 

[slimmer13]

That gun geeks are know it alls

 

[aljames]

DI guns are unreliable...
Longer barrels are more accurate than shorter ones...
You need to use a minimum of XYZ magnum for a deer rifle....
Nobody hunts with an AR....
.30 Carbine won't penetrate an enemies cloth uniform....
You can't shoot a handgun accurately with both eyes open....
Dry firing a gun will implode the firing pin and internals after doing it once....

Working behind a gun counter for a few years I heard quite a few. Truth be told I probably unknowingly repeated some BS too

 

[Andy54Hawken]

That AndyinEverson never misses when he shoots his Hawken Rifle....
Andy

 

[808hondacrguy]

That AndyinEverson never misses when he shoots his Hawken Rifle....
Andy

I heard that's not a myth, its a legend.

 

[User 1234]

When Andy's minie ball does not meet the target, it's because the target missed his shot, not the other way around.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Why thank ye fellas for them kind words....

To be right honest here though...

I never miss when I shoot...I always manage to hit something....
Andy

 

[CLT65]

That anyone who uses the word "clip" in reference to a magazine is an ignorant fool, and anyone who so knowingly corrects them is an "operator".

That all Mini-14s are hopelessly inaccurate.

That mass shootings happen because of the easy availability of these new-fangled "semi-auto guns" nowadays.

I know that one has been covered already, but I'll add to it a little. Someone actually told me that a while back, so I asked him how long he thought guns like that had been readily available. He guessed maybe 20 years.

I told him we wouldn't talk about Tommy guns from nearly a century ago, mostly because they were never widely available (very expensive), but we could certainly talk about guns like the little M1 Carbine. Six million of them made during WWII, and many thousands of commercial ones after that, they became widely available and popular starting in the '60s.

Semi-auto with commonly available 30 round magazines, they shot fast and with soft-point bullets could be quite deadly. You could by them for $20 back then, mail order. Guns like this were readily available and common back then, but we didn't have young people shooting up schools and stores. Something has changed...

 

[ilikegunspdx]

What about the myth that Winchester created an ammunition specifically for Portland's crime problem? Just because Portland's alias is PDX and just because we had like 11 shootings in the last week in se alone (see report below) doesn't mean this ammo was created for PDX!




...yes this is tongue-in-cheek (but crime map is real -crimes like robberies, theft, vandalism were left out cuz it's so thick U can't really see the map if u include those).

 

[Patriot1775]

Violent Criminals Favor "Assault Weapons", over all other firearms

 

[hatchj]

45ACP is a good cartridge.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Mainstream media and some social media sources would have us believe that most of the perpetrators of mass shootings, 4 or more victims in a public place not including the shooter, are mostly white males. This simply is not true.

There is a meme circulating on the internet which shows most mug shots of those accused so far in 2019. Even Snopes has to agree on its accuracy though they do comment on the definition of a mass shooting.

The meme can be viewed along with the Snopes commentary here... Does a Meme Show the Faces of Suspected Mass Shooters in U.S. in 2019?

 

[P7M13]

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"All Mass Shooters are angry, privileged, white males."
"The assault rifle is the preferred weapon of mass shooters"

 

[Flopsweat]

When Andy's minie ball does not meet the target, it's because the target missed his shot, not the other way around.

Why thank ye fellas for them kind words....

To be right honest here though...

I never miss when I shoot...I always manage to hit something....
Andy

Well I guess Andy is Chuck Norris now.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well I guess Andy is Chuck Norris now.

Well...
When Chuck Norris , goes to bed....he looks under the bed to check for AndyinEverson....
Andy

 

[User 1234]

At least Andy would have made his movies more tactically correct than Chuck did in Delta Force.

 

[CLT65]

Well...
When Chuck Norris , goes to bed....he looks under the bed to check for AndyinEverson....
Andy

Dude, that's just weird. Why would you be under Chuck Norris's bed?

 

[Flopsweat]

Dude, that's just weird. Why would you be under Chuck Norris's bed?

It's a thing they have.

 

[American123]

45ACP is a good cartridge.

Wow, itching to instigate I see